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Re: Life with My Robot Secretary

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Post by rmxt » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 9:33 PM UTC

yummyfajitas wrote: post #22

monkmartinez wrote: post #4

This looks awesome. I use reminders in Inbox with reckless abandon, love them. Please tell me there is an open source version of this or that I am missing something in gmail to do this. Pretty please. That said: There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this. There is a point where you have to analyze how many $5/$10/$15 dollar a month subscriptions you have. Pretty soon it can escalate to the cost of a monthly ve…

An intelligent assistant is fantastically useful. I sometimes pay $50/month (depending on how much work she does) and she is worth every penny. E.g., "Deepika, call up brokers and schedule me apartment viewings in $X location for $Y or less, schedule these appointments on monday evening back to back. Do the same for $Z location on tuesday evening." Of course, Deepika (name changed a little) is actually a real girl; I…

I can't tell if "her choice of birth country" is supposed to be ironic, sarcastic, or some other sly form of commentary...

Re: Life with My Robot Secretary

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Post by witty_username » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 3:29 AM UTC

yggydrasily wrote: post #17

witty_username wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Include a disclaimer about you being the co-founder of meekan.com

So lemme get this straight: it's okay for someone to post this advertisement-disguised-as-an-article about a YC-backed company's product that doesn't even do what it claims to do (the "article" reveals at the end that there are an "unspecified" number of human beings actually doing things behind the scenes in Clara), but not for someone to post about a competing product that actually does live up to the over-hyped "A…

I never said the post was OK either. I'm not a grammar nazi analyzing these things 24x7.

Re: Life with My Robot Secretary

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Post by pinko » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 6:33 PM UTC

yummyfajitas wrote: post #22

monkmartinez wrote: post #4

This looks awesome. I use reminders in Inbox with reckless abandon, love them. Please tell me there is an open source version of this or that I am missing something in gmail to do this. Pretty please. That said: There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this. There is a point where you have to analyze how many $5/$10/$15 dollar a month subscriptions you have. Pretty soon it can escalate to the cost of a monthly ve…

An intelligent assistant is fantastically useful. I sometimes pay $50/month (depending on how much work she does) and she is worth every penny. E.g., "Deepika, call up brokers and schedule me apartment viewings in $X location for $Y or less, schedule these appointments on monday evening back to back. Do the same for $Z location on tuesday evening." Of course, Deepika (name changed a little) is actually a real girl; I…

I presume (hope!) Deepika is a "real woman", and not a "real girl". I'm not trying to scold, but it's worth pointing out that most men wouldn't want to be described as "boys", and the culture that makes it so easy to inadvertently describe ourselves as men and girls rather than men and women has something to do with why we have so few women in computing.

Re: Life with My Robot Secretary

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Post by yummyfajitas » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 1:27 PM UTC

pinko wrote: post #33

yummyfajitas wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An intelligent assistant is fantastically useful. I sometimes pay $50/month (depending on how much work she does) and she is worth every penny. E.g., "Deepika, call up brokers and schedule me apartment viewings in $X location for $Y or less, schedule these appointments on monday evening back to back. Do the same for $Z location on tuesday evening." Of course, Deepika (name changed a little) is actually a real girl; I…

I presume (hope!) Deepika is a "real woman", and not a "real girl". I'm not trying to scold, but it's worth pointing out that most men wouldn't want to be described as "boys", and the culture that makes it so easy to inadvertently describe ourselves as men and girls rather than men and women has something to do with why we have so few women in computing.

We use the same terminology in many fields with lots of women, so I doubt your hypothesis is true.

If you image search "im a real boy" you'll also understand the reference I was making.